Monthly Webinars
Language Dynamics Group offers free 1-hour webinars on research, assessment and intervention topics through out the year in an effort to support educators and share important research gains made in literacy. To be the first to know when the next upcoming webinar is scheduled, follow us on either Facebook or Instagram. Please contact us if there is anything you would like us to cover in future webinars.
February 2025
To know or to learn? That is the question!
In this one-hour conversation, Dr. Douglas B. Petersen (University of Wyoming) and Dr. Trina D. Spencer (Juniper Garden’s Children’s Project; University of Kansas) open up the room to education professionals and researchers to discuss whether we should be teaching knowledge or teaching learning.
Wednesday, 2/19/25
7:00-8:00pm EST
March 2025
Goal Writing Tips for Oral & Written Language Targets
This webinar presents several models for using CUBED-3 results to generate oral and written language goals for various students and how to write goals when planning to deliver Story Champs intervention. Methods for measuring students’ progress will also be discussed.
Wednesday, 3/19/25
7:00-8:00pm EST
April 2025
LDG Research Update – What we know about assessing and teaching reading-related skills
Join Dr. Kirby as she summarizes the research published between January 2024 and March 2025 on the topics of best practice for assessing reading comprehension, use of dynamic assessment of narratives, and how narrative intervention improves writing and other literacy skills.
Wednesday, 4/16/25
7:00-8:00pm EST
May 2025
Why Narrative Intervention?
Wednesday, 5/21/25
7:00-8:00pm EST
Abstract and registration coming soon.
June 2025
TBD
Wednesday, 6/18/25
7:00-8:00pm EST
Abstract and registration coming soon.
July 2025
Dynamic Assessment: The New Gold Standard
Wednesday, 7/16/25
7:00-8:00pm EST
Abstract and registration coming soon.
August 2025
MTSS Breakdown: Beginning of Year Checklist
Wednesday, 8/20/25
7:00-8:00pm EST
Abstract and registration coming soon.
PREVIOUSLY RECORDED WEBINARS
2024 Webinars
An Introduction to the Digital CUBED-3 with Dr. Douglas Petersen
Dr. Douglas Petersen walks through the digital CUBED-3 and breaks down the subtests, explains the research behind it and why it is relevant, and walks through some of the effective reporting features in the digital system.
Douglas Petersen, PhD, CCC-SLP
AI and Language Sample Analysis
Dissemination and implementation specialist Alisa Konishi-Therkildsen walks through the current findings and how Language Dynamics Group plans to integrate AI technology for language sample analysis into our products moving forward.
Alisa Konishi-Therkildsen
Story Champs® and the Sciences of Reading and Writing
Dr. Megan Kirby, Director of Dissemination and Implementation Programs, discusses how Story Champs aligns with the sciences of both reading and writing.
Megan S. Kirby, PhD, BCBA
What is Dynamic Assessment?
Dissemination and Implementation Specialist, Kristi Jones, walks through the models of dynamic assessment and how they apply to the present and future of LDG!
Kristi Jones
2023 Webinars
Expanding Your Story Champs® Lessons
Dr. Megan Kirby
What is Story Champs®?
Megan S. Kirby, PhD, BCBA
Using STORY CHAMPS® Lesson Plans
Megan S. Kirby, PhD, BCBA
Narrative Intervention for Adolescents
Megan S. Kirby, PhD, BCBA
2022 Webinars
Story Champs® Small Group Intervention
Megan S. Kirby, PhD, BCBA
Measuring Narrative and Expository Language (NLM and ELM Flowcharts)
Courtney “Cici” Claar, M.A.
Preventing the Summer Slide
Megan Kirby, PhD, BCBA
Poetry and Storytelling
Megan Kirby, PhD, BCBA
PEARL 101: An Introduction to the Screener
Presented by Megan Kirby and Doug Petersen
How to Write Great Goals
Presented by Megan Kirby
2021 Webinars
Looking Back: 2020-2021 LDG Research Summary
Presented by Megan Kirby
Social-Emotional Vocabulary & Story Champs ®
Presented by Megan Kirby
Developing a Love of Literacy
Presented by Megan Kirby
Helping Students Recover Language After COVID-19
Presented by Megan Kirby
Building Strong Oral Language Skills with Story Champs ®
Presented by Dr. Trina Spencer
Story Champs® Webinars
Hitting Targets with Story Champs ®
Presented by Taylor Magleby
Play by Play Look at Story Champs ® Narrative Intervention
Presented by Taylor Magleby
DESCRIPTION: Tune in as we dig into Story Champs and explore how this fun and engaging intervention can help you promote narrative and academic language. We will give you lots of tips on how you can help your students achieve success in language, writing, vocabulary and more!
Story Champs ®: Help All Students Beat High Stakes Tests!
Presented by Trina Spencer, PhD, BCBA
DESCRIPTION: Get an overview of Story Champs, a multi-tiered academic language curriculum, designed to meet the needs of children with and without disabilities and as young as three years old. Using narrative language as the foundation, Story Champs also builds vocabulary, grammar and syntax, writing, informational discourse, and reading comprehension.
Language Overview Webinars
Introducing Play-by-Play Series, How to Change Your Students’ Trajectories:
Presented by Taylor Magleby
DESCRIPTION: Tune in to this webinar as we discuss how you can predict who is going to have a future reading disorder and how you can potentially prevent the disorder from even manifesting.
Innovation in academic language assessment and intervention: Leave no child behind and mean it:
Presented by Douglas Petersen, PhD, CCC-SLP